History of ideas on woman : a source book

Book

History of ideas on woman : a source book / Rosemary Agonito.

Summary:

Thirty discourses and treatises on the subject of women, by influential thinkers ranging from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Freud, Beauvoir, and Friedan, are accompanied by critical analyses.

Record details

ISBN: 0399119647
ISBN: 9780399119644
ISBN: 039950379X
ISBN: 9780399503795
Physical Description: 414 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Putnam, ©1977.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414).
Formatted Contents Note:: The creation and fall of man and woman / Genesis (from The Holy Bible) -- Women as equal to men in the state / Plato (from The republic) -- The differences between men and women / Aristotle (from The generation of animals ; History of animals ; Politics) -- The roles and virtues of men and women / Plutarch (from Moralia) -- The relationship of men and women / Paul (from Letter to the Corinthians) -- Women as auxiliary and subject to man / Augustine (from The city of God) -- Woman as derived being / Thomas Aquinas (from Summa theologica) -- Love and marriage as impediments to man / Francis Bacon (from Essays) -- Maternity and the origin of political power / Thomas Hobbes (from Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society) -- Maternity, paternity, and the origin of political power / John Locke (from The second treatise of civil government) -- Paternity and the origin of political power / Jean Jacques Rousseau (from A discourse on political economy) -- The conventional origin of female virtues / David Hume (from A treatise of human nature).

The interrelations of the two sexes / Immanuel Kant (from Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime) -- The effects of discrimination against women / Mary Wollstonecraft (from A vindication of the rights of women) -- Marriage and the family / Georg Hegel (from The philosophy of right) -- The essence of women / Søren Kierkegaard (from Stages on life's way) -- The weakness of woman / Arthur Schopenhauer (from Studies in pessimism) -- Woman's suffrage / Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Woman) -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill (from The subjection of women) -- The origin of sexual differences / Charles Darwin (from The descent of man) -- Woman as dangerous plaything / Friedrich Nietzsche (from Thus spake Zarathustra) -- The origin of the oppression of women / Friedrich Engels (from The origin of the family, private property and the state) -- Sexual ethics and women / Bertrand Russell (from Marriage and morals) -- Woman as castrated man / Sigmund Freud (from New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis).

Response to Freud / Karen Horney (from New ways in psychoanalysis) -- The existential paralysis of women / Simone de Beauvoir (from The second sex) -- The intellectual and bodily superiority of women / Ashley Montagu (from The natural superiority of women) -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan (from The femine mystique) -- Capitalism and women's liberation / Herbert Marcuse (from Counterrevolution and revolt) -- Declaration of women's rights / United Nations.